Last week’s New York Times article on the auction of Jack Kerouac’s scroll manuscript of On the Road included this puzzling tidbit: The book … continues to sell at a rate of 110,000 to 130,000 copies ...

With our free press under threat and federal funding for public media gone, your support matters more than ever. Help keep the LAist newsroom strong, become a monthly member or increase your support ...

Jack Kerouac's ex-girlfriend, the author Joyce Johnson, tells PEOPLE that the intense public reaction to Kerouac's 1957 novel On the Road made him feel he "was under a tremendous attack all the time" ...

The book "Gone In October: Last Reflections on Jack Kerouac" by John Clellon Holmes will be the main topic of a virtual conversation at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 19 according to a press release. The ...

One hundred years ago in the mid-afternoon of March 12, Dr. Victor Rochette left his turreted Victorian on Mount Vernon Street in the Acre section of Lowell and made his way across the Merrimack to ...

Mar. 4—Tales of the open road — filled with the neon glow of highway diner lights and the gaggle of characters you meet along the way — usually prove to be instant page-turners. Journeys that take ...

Death Cab For Cutie's Benjamin Gibbard and Son Volt's Jay Farrar seem opposites in many ways; Gibbard is effusive and chatty while Farrar is a man of few words, laconic and dry. But both men have ...

At least 1,000 people showed up for the 10,000 Maniacs concert at Summerfest today - a decent crowd for 4 p.m. on a weekday - and although the show was cut abruptly short due to approaching storms, it ...

Today, Lynn Yaeger uses her column to write an open letter of sorts to Jack Kerouac, just to let him know how his image has made its way into today’s high fashion. Hogan, the leather brand, has ...

School is in the air. It has that crisp yet warm feeling — you know, the excitement of shopping for school supplies, the crack of the bat launching fall prep sports, and once again seeing one’s ...